I was happy to see that the budget bill that the House of Representatives passed last month, which cuts $61 billion dollars in federal spending, would end all federal funding for Planned Parenthood. The bill ensures that organizations that perform abortions, including Planned Parenthood, do not receive federal dollars under the Title X federal family planning assistance program. A 2010 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study found that the abortion industry received over 1 billion dollars in federal funds over an 8 year period. This includes $657.1 million dollars to Planned Parenthood over 7 years.

Planned Parenthood argues that by statute, under the so called Hyde Amendment, they cannot use the federal funding they get to pay for the abortions they perform. The problem with this argument is that everyone knows that once this money is transferred to their bank account, they can use it for whatever they want -it’s fungible. Even if they don’t use it directly to pay for abortions, they can use it to recruit and hire the staff that is going to perform them or rent or buy the buildings that house their abortion clinics.

The federal government must stop aiding and abetting abortion practitioners who are targeting minority communities to kill their children. Twenty-two percent of abortions in the U.S., for example, are performed on Hispanic women, and they are 2.7 times more likely to have an abortion than non-Hispanic white women. Motivated by their warped eugenic views, Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers are clearly going after racial and ethnic minorities in the country.

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